DOCTOR. SS-Obersturmfuhrer FRANZ von BODMAN PAPERS

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Description: RARE DOCUMENTS TO SS  CONCENTRATION CAMP DOCTOR. SS-Obersturmfuhrer FRANZ Johann Hermann Maria Freiherr (Baron) von BODMAN(N).Born 23/03/08 Joined the NSDAP 1932 (#1098482) and the SS 1934 (#263787).
Bodman started his SS Career as a Physician in the 79th Allgemeine SS Regiment \\\”Ulm\\\”. Then on 29/01/42 he was assigned to the Concentration Camp Inspectorate and sent to KL NEUENGAMME.Then from April 42-Aug 42 was Chief SS Garrison physician (SS-Standortarzt) at AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU.Then from Aug 42-Apr 43, 1. Lagerarzt KL MAJDANEK. 10/04/43 – 15/09/43, 1.Lagerarzt KL NATZWEILER-STRUTHOF. Sep 43 – Sep 44 1. Lagerarzt KL VAIVARA (Estonia).
From the KL system Bodman was assigned to SS-Hauptamt Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (VOMI). And finished the War serving in the 5th SS Pz Div Wiking. Until his suicide on 25th May 1945.
Bodman was certainly one of the \\\”Doctors of Death\\\” and if he hadn\\\’t of commited suicide would have been on the wanted list with the likes of Mengele and Heim.

According to Ernst Klee author of \\\”AUSCHWITZ THE NAZI MEDICINE AND ITS VICTIMS\\\” von Bodman was THE inventor of the process of killing KL prisoners with phenol injections.

Another extract from THE NAZI DOCTORS: medical killing and the psychology of Genocide- Robert J Lifton ISBN 0-465-09094
\\\”For a doctor,phenol injections were the most literal example of the entire healing-killing reversal. Although most of the injections were given by non-physicians,SS doctors initiated them in Auschwitz and maintained responsibility for their administration,and sometimes continued to perform the injections themselves.. An early practitioner of phenol killing was Dr Franz von Bodman, whom Langbain described as having shown considerable \\\”initiative\\\” in this form of murder. Although at Auschwitz only briefly, Bodman managed as Chief doctor during the summer of 1942 to inject many inmates by vein resulting in slow and painful deaths\\\”.Once two girls who had been shot by SS men, one in the stomach and the other in the thigh, were brought to the medical block; Bodman prohibited anyone from treating the wounds and then personally injected both girls with phenol.19 It is likely that this man’s zeal in phenol killing was related both to especially strong Nazi involvement and to psychological inclinations toward omnipotence and sadism.
Josef Mengele injected phenol on several occasions — though not as regularly as Bodman

This unique and historical group consists of well over 30 documents relating to Bodman\\\’s pre-war medical studies at several universities. The group mainly consists of Bodman\\\’s Praktikantenschein and Bescheinigung, study books and registration books from Universities of Tübingen, München, Freiburg im Breisgau and Rostock. There is also an ID is Bodman\\\’s Meldungsbuch from the University of Wien which displays a nice photo of him. Photos of Bodman are extremely rare with less than 4 known.

1933 Photo of Bodmann is from the Schiffer book
\\\”Commanders of Auschwitz\\\” by Jeremy Dixon. A superb reference book to this camp.